The Causes of World War 2

• What were Hitlers main aims?



  Rebuild Germany's army and navy, Reoccupy the Rhineland, Regain territory lost in WW1, unit all the German speakers.
• Lebensraum


  'Living space' for ethic Germans
• Anschluss


  The joining together of Germany and Austria.
• Sudetenland


  The majority German speaking regions of Czechoslovakia.
• What happened in 1936?


  Germany gained possession of the region bordering France -Rhineland
• What happened in 1938, between Germany and Austria?


  Hitler threatened the Austrian chancellor to join him, Austria had no choice but to sign the 'Third Reich' this is known as Anschluss
• What was the 'Third Reich'?


  The joining of ethnic German speaker under a policy: The German empire.
• Appeasement


  "Agreeing to Hitlers demand in hope of avoiding war," - British foreign policy
• Why did France want to avoid war with Germany?


  did not want to risk a war with Germany, did not know Germany's size of army.
• What was the Munich conference?


  It was an agreement that Czechoslovakia surrenders the Sudetenland to Germany, but on march 1939 Hitler broke the agreement and took the rest of Czechoslovakia.
• What was the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression act?


  It was a treaty between the fascism and communism (Hitler and Stalin), that they will not attack each other or help each others enemies, they agreed on a secret clause to partition Poland between them
• How did World War 2 start?


  On 1 September 1939, Germany Invaded Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany.